Ephesians 5
New Living Translation
Living in the Light
5 Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us[a] and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. 4 Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. 5 You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
6 Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him. 7 Don’t participate in the things these people do. 8 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! 9 For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
10 Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. 11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. 12 It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. 13 But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, 14 for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,
“Awake, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.”
Living by the Spirit’s Power
15 So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Spirit-Guided Relationships: Wives and Husbands
21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.[b] 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”[c] 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5
New American Standard Bible
Be Imitators of God
5 (A)Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and (B)walk in love, just as Christ also (C)loved [a]you and (D)gave Himself up for us, an (E)offering and a sacrifice to God [b]as a (F)fragrant aroma.
3 But (G)sexual immorality [c]or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among [d]saints; 4 and there must be no (H)filthiness [e]or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which (I)are not fitting, but rather (J)giving of thanks. 5 For this you know with certainty, that (K)no sexually immoral or [f]impure or greedy person, which [g]amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom (L)of Christ and God.
6 (M)See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things (N)the wrath of God comes upon (O)the [h]sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become (P)partners with them; 8 for (Q)you were once (R)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as (S)children of light 9 (for (T)the fruit of the light consists in all (U)goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 [i](V)as you try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 (W)Do not participate in the useless (X)deeds of (Y)darkness, but instead even (Z)expose them; 12 for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things become visible (AA)when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. 14 For this reason [j]it says,
15 So then, [k]be careful how you (AE)walk, not (AF)as unwise people but as wise, 16 [l](AG)making the most of your time, because (AH)the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but (AI)understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And (AJ)do not get drunk with wine, [m]in which there is (AK)debauchery, but be (AL)filled with the Spirit, 19 (AM)speaking to [n]one another in (AN)psalms and (AO)hymns and spiritual (AP)songs, (AQ)singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord; 20 (AR)always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our (AS)God and Father; 21 [o](AT)and subject yourselves to one another in the [p](AU)fear of Christ.
Marriage like Christ and the Church
22 (AV)Wives, (AW)subject yourselves to your own husbands, (AX)as to the Lord. 23 For (AY)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the (AZ)head of the church, He Himself (BA)being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25 (BB)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and (BC)gave Himself up for her, 26 (BD)so that He might sanctify her, having (BE)cleansed her by the (BF)washing of water with (BG)the word, 27 that He might (BH)present to Himself the church [q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be (BI)holy and blameless. 28 So husbands also ought to (BJ)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are (BK)parts of His (BL)body. 31 (BM)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to (BN)love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she (BO)respects her husband.
Footnotes
- Ephesians 5:2 One early ms us
- Ephesians 5:2 Lit for an odor of fragrance
- Ephesians 5:3 Lit and all
- Ephesians 5:3 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
- Ephesians 5:4 Lit and
- Ephesians 5:5 I.e., morally impure
- Ephesians 5:5 Lit is
- Ephesians 5:6 I.e., people opposed to God
- Ephesians 5:10 Lit putting to the test what
- Ephesians 5:14 Or He
- Ephesians 5:15 Lit look carefully
- Ephesians 5:16 Lit redeeming the time
- Ephesians 5:18 Or by which
- Ephesians 5:19 Or yourselves
- Ephesians 5:21 Lit being submissive to
- Ephesians 5:21 Or reverence for
- Ephesians 5:27 Lit glorious
Efesios 5
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
El andar de los hijos de Dios
5 Sean, pues, imitadores de Dios(A) como hijos amados; 2 y anden en amor(B), así como también Cristo les[a] amó(C) y se dio a sí mismo por nosotros(D), ofrenda y sacrificio a Dios(E), como fragante aroma[b](F).
3 Pero que la inmoralidad, y toda impureza o avaricia, ni siquiera se mencionen entre ustedes(G), como corresponde a los santos. 4 Tampoco haya obscenidades, ni necedades(H), ni groserías, que no son apropiadas(I), sino más bien acciones de gracias(J). 5 Porque con certeza ustedes saben esto: que ningún inmoral, impuro o avaro, que es idólatra(K), tiene herencia en el reino de Cristo(L) y de Dios.
6 Que nadie los engañe con palabras vanas(M), pues por causa de estas cosas la ira de Dios(N) viene sobre los hijos de desobediencia(O). 7 Por tanto, no sean partícipes con ellos(P); 8 porque antes ustedes eran(Q) tinieblas, pero ahora son luz(R) en el Señor; anden como hijos de luz(S). 9 Porque el fruto de la luz[c](T) consiste en toda bondad(U), justicia y verdad.
10 Examinen qué es lo que agrada al Señor(V), 11 y no participen en las obras estériles de las tinieblas(W), sino más bien, desenmascárenlas(X). 12 Porque es vergonzoso aun hablar de las cosas que ellos hacen en secreto. 13 Pero todas las cosas se hacen visibles cuando son expuestas[d] por la luz, pues todo lo que se hace visible es luz[e](Y). 14 Por esta razón dice:
15 Por tanto, tengan cuidado[f] cómo andan(AC); no como insensatos sino como sabios(AD), 16 aprovechando bien[g] el tiempo(AE), porque los días son malos(AF). 17 Así pues, no sean necios, sino entiendan cuál es la voluntad del Señor(AG). 18 Y no se embriaguen con vino(AH), en lo cual hay disolución(AI), sino sean llenos del Espíritu(AJ).
19 Hablen entre ustedes con salmos(AK), himnos(AL) y cantos espirituales(AM), cantando(AN) y alabando con su corazón al Señor(AO). 20 Den siempre gracias por todo, en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, a Dios, el Padre[h](AP). 21 Sométanse unos a otros(AQ) en el temor de Cristo(AR).
Cristo y la iglesia, un modelo para el hogar
22 (AS)Las mujeres estén sometidas a sus propios maridos(AT) como al Señor(AU). 23 Porque el marido es cabeza de la mujer(AV), así como Cristo es cabeza de la iglesia(AW), siendo El mismo el Salvador del cuerpo(AX). 24 Pero así como la iglesia está sujeta a Cristo, también las mujeres deben estarlo a sus maridos en todo.
25 Maridos, amen a sus mujeres(AY), así como Cristo amó a la iglesia y se dio Él mismo por ella(AZ), 26 para santificarla(BA), habiéndola purificado(BB) por el lavamiento del agua(BC) con la palabra(BD), 27 a fin de presentársela a sí mismo, una[i] iglesia en toda su gloria[j], sin que tenga mancha ni arruga ni cosa semejante, sino que fuera santa e inmaculada(BE).
28 Así deben también los maridos amar a sus mujeres, como a sus propios cuerpos. El que ama a su mujer, a sí mismo se ama(BF). 29 Porque nadie aborreció jamás su propio cuerpo[k], sino que lo sustenta y lo cuida, así como también Cristo a la iglesia; 30 porque somos miembros de Su cuerpo[l](BG). 31 Por esto el hombre dejará a su padre y a su madre, y se unirá a su mujer, y los dos serán una sola carne(BH).
32 Grande es este misterio, pero hablo con referencia a Cristo y a la iglesia. 33 En todo caso, cada uno de ustedes ame también a su mujer como a sí mismo(BI), y que la mujer respete[m] a su marido(BJ).
Footnotes
- Efesios 5:2 Algunos mss. antiguos dicen: nos.
- Efesios 5:2 Lit. para olor de fragancia.
- Efesios 5:9 Algunos mss. dicen: del Espíritu.
- Efesios 5:13 O reprochadas.
- Efesios 5:13 O pues la luz es lo que hace todo visible.
- Efesios 5:15 Lit. miren cuidadosamente.
- Efesios 5:16 Lit. redimiendo.
- Efesios 5:20 Lit. al Dios y Padre.
- Efesios 5:27 Lit. la.
- Efesios 5:27 Lit. gloriosa.
- Efesios 5:29 Lit. propia carne.
- Efesios 5:30 Algunos mss. agregan: de su carne y de sus huesos.
- Efesios 5:33 Lit. tema.
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